"New Jack Toronto" by Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo

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New Jack Toronto

by Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo

http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/05/new_jack_toronto.php

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As I flagged over the weekend, the Mayor Ford/crack cocaine saga has now graduated up to potential connection to an unsolved murder in Toronto. Over the weekend, the Globe and Mail reported that a member of Ford’s senior staff had reached out to the Toronto police after getting a tip from another member of the staff about the location of the video and the suggestion that a young Toronto man had been murdered over the tape. Now we have a few more details.

This morning’s Globe and Mail reports that the mystery staffer is Mark Towhey, Ford’s former chief of staff who we’d been told had resigned or been was fired after he asked Mayor Ford to go to rehab and try to get his act together.

After this weekend’s report it seemed that Towhey might be the person in question. Now that’s confirmed.

According to the new article, Dave Price (a longtime Ford family confidant - about whom we’ll say more in a moment) went to Towhey to say he’d gotten a reliable tip about the whereabouts of the crack tape. That tip included an address. Towhey (wisely) told Price not to try to find the tape. Then this …

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[Canuckistanian]

1. What?

Wow, I never heard of half this stuff. And I'm following the story closely.